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No. 373,838. Y. 1 Patented Nov. 29; 1887.

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STENCIL.

sPEcIrIcATIoNforming part of Letters Patent No. 373.838, dated Nevera-ber 29, 1887.

Application filed February 1U, 1887. Serial No. `227,191. (Specimens.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I.' BERNARD BENLOWEN- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stencils, of'which the following is a sp`ecificatiou.`

My invention relates to an improvement in stencils; and it consists in a pair of stencilplates, one of which is provided with the pattern, letters, or characters cut out in detached parts, and the other provided with .openings adapted to register with the spaces separating the parts of the pattern, letters, or characters in the primary plate, whereby complete characters, patterns, or letters may be marked, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

- In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a primary stencil-plate. Fig. 2 represents the characters inscribed by means of the primary plate. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the secondary stencil-plate. Fig. 4 represents the completed characters formed by the use of two plates.

A represents a primary stencil -plate in A whicha pattern, letters, or characters are cut out, the said pattern, letters, or 'characters being necessarily made in detached parts in the usual manner. When the said primary stencilplate is laid upon a surface to be printedand a brush charged with ink or color is passed over the said plate, letters or characters are formed which are not entire, but are composed of parts separated by interveningspaces, as shown at Fig. 2. V

In order to-enable complete letters, characters, or patterns to be stenciled, I provide a secondary stencil-plate, B, which is of the same size as the primary plate and has openings G, which register with the open spaces' left in the characters marked by the primary plate, as shown at Fig. 3. Vhen the primary fstencil-plate has been removed after marking the disconnected patterns or characters, the secondary stencil -plate is carefully -placed upon the surface to be printed, and is so adjusted thereon as to canse the openings C to fall upon the spaces between the parts of the characters 4or letters marked by the primary plate. The brush is then passed over the secondary plate, and thereby color or ink is applied to the blank spaces in the letters or characters, thus completing them, as shown at Fig. 4.

If desired', the color applied to the secondary stencil-plate maybe different from that used vwith the primary plate, thus forming chromatic letters or characters, or one or more colors different from that of the surface to be printed upon may be applied thereto before using the stencil-plates to secure alike result. i

I propose to make my stencil-plates of o ilpaper, sheet metal, or any other suitable material, and do not limit myself in this particular.

Having thus described my invention, I

BERNARD IIOVENSON.

Witnesses: 'y

J oHN A. MILLER,

N. A. FRANKEL. 

